Ten shares to follow in a year that begins with a cliffhanger

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Forecasting is a mug’s game, sometimes. As the market closed yesterday, there
was no resolution of the stand-off on the US fiscal cliff. The world’s
biggest economy will either have kicked the can further down the road or be
about to go into recession again.

The assumption was that there would be a grubby compromise. The FTSE 100 Index
is about 30 points higher since the start of this month. It would not be,
were the markets expecting some financial apocalypse.

All the other uncertainties remain hanging over the market — the eurozone, the
Chinese economy and so on. That said,